Now in its fifty-second year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the international leader of innovative visual representation in the natural world. This prestigious competition and resulting exhibition, opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Jan. 27, stimulates engagement with the diversity and beauty of the natural world. On loan from the Natural History Museum […]
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness”-John Muir On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an “organic act” creating the U.S. National Parks Service. Although Yellowstone National Park had already existed for 44 years, this act created a Federal Agency whose purpose was to “protect and regulate the use of […]
It’s that time of year again! Whether you love heading back to school or wishing summer would last another month, there’s still time to visit the always exciting exhibits at the museum as well as shop for the coolest things to set you apart from all the other students. We’re here to help! Shop our […]
by Victoria Smith, HMNS Executive Assistant Here at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, we love all animals, not just extinct ones. When we heard it was Take Your Dog to Work Day, we thought that sounded like fun. . . maybe a little too fun considering how many pre-historic bones are here. Since […]
In the time before TV or radio, people had to entertain themselves. Some of the quickest games to start were word games. Either take a theme and pun away, or set up different rules like starting the next word with the letter that ended the previous word. For more formal entertainment, you could create a […]
